-
Trying to comment in everything here, but there's a lot and am sure I've missed some.
Rpj: yeah, thanks for breaking the Bird Blues ice there. Great feel and tone.
Lawson: great job harmonizing your lines. Nice shirt, too.
Peter C: cool stuff. How's the brown acid?
Jeff: great take of a great tune.
-
06-07-2021 06:54 PM
-
Great flow on that second take, Jeff
-
Originally Posted by John A.
-
Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
But now I think I need to give it a try.
-
Originally Posted by lawson-stone
The key to it is to be able to feel the changes. Best thing for that is repetition.
But, that gets boring, so I thought of this, in case it's helpful to anyone.
Play a chorus in whole notes except as noted, as follows.
Blues For Alice in F major
Bar Note
1 F
2 Bb A (half notes)
3 G F (half notes)
4 Eb (this is a very important one, because it leads you to the IV chord)
5 D
6 Db
7 C
8 B
9 Bb (this is another place you anchor to the progression, since it follows three bars of interpolation)
10. Bb
11 A Ab (half notes)
12 G Gb (half notes)
Then, I played a solo using only those notes and the note an octave higher. I tried to add interest by playing interesting rhythmic ideas.
Then I added the third above the note. For the D, I went up a minor third (because D is already the third of the Bb chord).
By then, the changes may be sinking in. At that point, you scat sing and, when you scat a line you like, put it on the guitar.
-
Originally Posted by Vladan
-
Right, so I didn't quite succeed in derailing the thread
As an apology, here is one more minor blues that I improvised last night with a little help from my looper. As to the backing tracks, well maybe next week.
-
Originally Posted by Peter C
Nor I, for the same reason, but kept the spirit alive (and my shoes on)
-
Hey, it was either shoes or guitar strings. Dude on the bench in your pic is either spaced out or passed out. LOL.
-
Originally Posted by lawson-stone
You look so cool, almost unrecognizable if one (like me) only knows you from your videos.
Next time you record, wear this outfit, take this pose, smile like this, and keep it while playing....
Cool man!!!!
-
Originally Posted by DonEsteban
-
Originally Posted by lawson-stone
-
That‘s why I don‘t do videos
Gesendet von iPad mit Tapatalk
-
There's no way I could intentionally smile while playing...I'd have to spend all my energy thinking about it.
Parker blues tips, for anyone wanting to try one.
1. Pare it down to one chord per bar. Every ii V becomes a ii, or a V, but not both.
2. Play through the changes to targets...good news....it's still a blues, your targets haven't moved.
3. Nail the unique stuff. The III7 in the second bar...the IV to iv...
4. When in doubt, blues stuff still works. Maybe not BB King, but all jazz blues vocab will still fit, if you're a little careful.
5. If you get really stuck, play the melody of Wave.
-
Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
-
Last edited by kris; 06-09-2021 at 03:05 PM.
-
Quiet afternoon today. This kept me amused for a while. Well, it's definitely bloos.
I don't laugh any more, makes my face ache
-
Originally Posted by docsteve
Meaning in context ...
My Band camp
-
Originally Posted by ragman1
-
I like my pies fried.
-
Originally Posted by grahambop
-
Originally Posted by grahambop
-
Thanks guys, yes I’ve always loved this tune with its off-centre rhythms and perfectly engineered chords - Wes wrote great tunes for guitarists to play. Steve Khan’s book has some of them fully notated, I may have learned it from there, can’t remember now.
The backing is BIAB - I think it took me as long to programme the damn thing to play it properly, as it did for me to learn the tune! (I learned the tune and set it up some years ago.)
-
Originally Posted by grahambop
-
Here is my very first ever attempt at recording into my computer from about 15 years ago. The backing track only had two verses so I switched pickups from the first to the second for testing the sounds. Apologies that nearing the end of the second verse I realized I had not played up high yet, so kind of bailed and made a hasty awkward traverse up to the dusty frets to hear those... But this was my first, still kind of like it.
Moffa Mithra
Today, 08:31 AM in For Sale